Word: endless
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Five numerals and a prefix was hard enough. Seven numerals was clearly pushing it. With the addition of three more digits-for area code -phone numbers became endless strings of digits, impossible for all but the strong-minded to remember. Was there a way to give them shape, meaning, character? What about referring to the dial and decoding the digits back into letter form-changing telephone numbers into telephone names? That way, 255-7465 made ALL PINK, 744-7226 the even more colorful PIGS CAN. The telephonetics game was slow in starting, but today it is only the phone company...
With his ageless, cigar-store Indian's face, his schoolboyish cleverness and his endless role playing-political poet, lyric poet, religious poet-W. H. Auden was doomed to be regarded as the most promising poet in the English language. Right up to the threshold of old age. In fact, from the moment his first book of poems appeared when he was 23 and just down from Oxford, Auden was permanently assigned the prospect of becoming T. S. Eliot's successor. That has turned out to be practically a lifetime career...
...produce the muddle in which man finds himself. God did not bring about the wars, the poverty, the diseases, the endless woes that afflict the human race. God did not sponsor the greed, the class division and the racial hatreds that seethe about us like unhealthy geysers. Let us not blame God for the corruption and callousness of public officials, for sickening slums, for thousands of drug addicts, for selfishness and stupidity...
WEST GERMANY Riding the Sexwelle The phenomenon that West Germans call the Sexwelle (sex wave) threatens to reach tidal proportions. Advertisements feature undressed girls, sex boutiques in several cities offer an endless variety of erotic paraphernalia, and coyly clinical ''sex education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator...
...Accra, great crowds of foreigners joined an endless queue outside the Accra Sport Stadium, the emergency emigration center. As often as not, they paid $10 or $20 in "dash" money (bribes) for the proper forms. At night, many slept near Kotoka international airport -alongside billboards hailing African unity...